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43. MetLife

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Rank: 43 (Previous rank: 37)
Compare tool: MetLife vs. Top 10
CEO: C. Robert Henrikson
Address: 200 Park Ave.
New York, NY 10166
Phone: 212-578-2211
Website: www.metlife.com

The nation's largest life insurer, which has a diversified investment portfolio, had a tough act to follow last year, since its 2006 earnings got a $3 billion boost from the largest residential real estate sale in history. As a result, profit fell 31.4%.

But the company has been virtually untouched by the mortgage crisis, since its subprime investments account for less than 1% of the insurer's portfolio and had losses of less than $1 million. MetLife saw growth in overseas sales and increased sales of retirement investments, and put more money into timber and hedge funds as investment alternatives.

	$ millions	% change from 2006
Revenues	53,150.0	-0.2
Profits	4,317.0	-31.4
Assets	558,562.0	—
Stockholders' equity	35,179.0	—
Market value (3/28/2008)	42,236.2	—

Profits as % of
Revenues	8.1
Assets	0.8
Stockholders' equity	12.3

Earnings per share
2007 $	5.48
% change from 2006	-31.4
1997-2007 annual growth rate %	N.A.

Total return to investors	%
2007	5.7
1997-2007 annual rate	N.A.

Industry: Insurance: Life, Health (stock)

Rank	Company	500 rank	Revenues ($ millions)
1	MetLife	43	53,150.0
2	Prudential Financial	74	34,401.0
3	AFLAC	165	15,393.0


4	Genworth Financial	233	11,443.0
5	Principal Financial	242	10,906.8
6	Lincoln National	246	10,738.0
7	Unum Group	251	10,567.1
8	Pacific Life	452	5,325.0
9	Conseco	503	4,572.3
10	Torchmark	602	3,486.7
11	American National Insurance	662	3,071.1
12	Protective Life	665	3,051.7
13	Securian Financial Group	700	2,852.2
14	StanCorp Financial	727	2,709.2
15	Phoenix	756	2,572.8